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When installing Windows 98, the part of the setup process where you enter things like product details looks... different. The scrollbars, buttons, title bar and such look more like they belong in ...
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My friend told me that earlier iterations of the Pentium 4 were not as fast as the Pentium III, but he didn't have sources.
Is it true that the Pentium III was faster than its successor Pentium 4?
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From what I've read, the first FORTRAN compiler built a machine-code program entirely in memory; it was, in fact, designed to read the entire source code of the program, and then sequentially load ...
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I am curious to learn about any developments in computer theory, hardware, and software that took place outside of the United States, in the middle of last century (~1940s-1980s).
I have read 'Where ...
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A preprocessor is a tool that takes source code as input and outputs a modified version of it for input to a downstream tool, such as a compiler or interpreter. Preprocessors can be used to implement ...
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The 6502 uses the carry bit system (over a borrow bit). On such machines, the bitwise NOT is applied to the subtrahend before it is "subtracted" (really, added, taking advantage of two's complement) ...
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I have a working (I think) Amiga 500 system with internal DF0 drive and an external DF1 drive. The Amiga 500 powers up with Workbench v1.3. Can anyone tell me how to access a game disc (Marble ...
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Today there are adapters available allowing you to connect historic floppy drives to a modern PC. This allows you to copy data from historic floppy disks to the PC.
In the late 1980s and the early ...
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In general, there are two types of syntax of defining functions - Something like C, C++, C#, or Java (int functionName(char arg)) vs the ML (and others) tradition of defining the return type after the ...
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Preface: This question does in part intersect with Use of undocumented opcodes, but targets especially the 8086 instruction handling.
I was reading Tanenbaum's "Operating Systems, Design and ...
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Programming language development has been influenced by hardware design. One example from this answer mentions how C pointers were, at least in part, influenced by the design of the PDP-11. Has the ...
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I remember the computer I played Commander Keen on as a child had a turbo button that I was forbidden to touch, what did this button actually do?
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I'm browsing through an old book "Basic Computer Simulation" from 1983. It contains a line of BASIC code that reads:
LET Z1 = M * D1 * (PQ / A) [ 3
I understand all of the code except the "[ 3" I ...
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This probably nearly belongs on Skeptics.SE but here goes.
Within the last few years I've become an Apple convert for the most part, which occasionally brings me into (usually) good natured conflict ...
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The native floppy disk format/layout or "filesystem" used by Amstrad microcomputers such as the CPC and PCW range and by the Sinclair Spectrum +3 are versions of one that came from CP/M.
In Amstrad ...
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I'm trying to install a 68060 accelerator on an Amiga 3000T, but I cannot figure out the correct jumper settings. The information I've found online is:
J100 CLK90 Delay jumper. This Jumper has three ...
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